While I realize you're working on the review and everything else, I am curious what you think about difficulty so far, and if you've ever played the original Dungeon Master or the Eye of the Beholder games.

For some reason I never did play the original Dungeon Master or Eye of Beholder series. I have played a couple of Wizardry games, Kings Field, and Etrian Odyssey 1-3 though. So I enjoy Dungeon Crawlers. I'm not into the hand drawn mapping though, I'm not that hardcore.

As for the difficulty, I'll talk about it in the review, but the game is no cake walk and you can definately see a differance when you level up.

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Someone is going to have to help me with the puzzles though. Now days I am too lazy to spend hours/days stuck on a puzzle. I'll give them 30 minutes and then I am coming here and asking for the solution.

Nice review, one question though. You mention 3 difficulty levels. Are they "Easy, Normal, Hard" or "Normal, Hard, Insane"? I like dungeon crawler games, but tend to get easily frustrated if they are crazy-ass hard (looking at you, Etrian Odyssey).

Nice review, one question though. You mention 3 difficulty levels. Are they "Easy, Normal, Hard" or "Normal, Hard, Insane"? I like dungeon crawler games, but tend to get easily frustrated if they are crazy-ass hard (looking at you, Etrian Odyssey).

Yeah it's ,normal, hard. Normal settings aren't as hard as Etrian Odyssey. But it's still challenging. Somehow they managed to balance this game almost perfectly. I still have my doubts about their claim that only 4 guys worked on this title. It's polished, bug free as far as I can tell, and deep.

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I've heard there are 13 levels. I'm still on level 9. If you want to solve every puzzle and find all the secrets it could easily take you over 20 hours would be my guess. It's funny because my save game says I've spent 11 hours, but Steam says I've spent 16 hours. I know I've reloaded a lot, so my guess is I spent about 5 hours of puzzle solving only to reload to my last save when I finally figured the puzzle out.

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A bit concerned about the puzzles. Some are reflex based I understand. And I hate it when i can't advance because I can't get by some stupid puzzle. I understand they all at least have some clue. I just hope they aren't too hard.

A bit concerned about the puzzles. Some are reflex based I understand. And I hate it when i can't advance because I can't get by some stupid puzzle. I understand they all at least have some clue. I just hope they aren't too hard.

I wouldn't really call them reflex based. Some of them involve floors that drop on timers. So you have to move across those tile sections before the floor drops. This is a grid based game, so you don't need lightening reflexes to solve those types of puzzles, you really just need to memorize the pattern and then keep moving.

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